PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 58 74
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 +6
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 71 39 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.08% 2.89% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.52% 7.25% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 14 22 26
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £46,335
25th Percentile £63,188 £51,500 £51,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,750 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +32.92% -8.19% +26.89%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,548
90th Percentile - £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £70,750 £52,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +34.12% -8.26% +11.65%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 346 538 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.36% 39.85% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 149 282 373
10th Percentile £25,950 £40,125 £42,874
25th Percentile £30,808 £46,713 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,227 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (11.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) CICS
3 1 (1.41%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (84.51%) Azure
2 30 (42.25%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (39.44%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (38.03%) Entra ID
5 13 (18.31%) dbt
5 13 (18.31%) Snowflake
6 10 (14.08%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (14.08%) GitHub
7 9 (12.68%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (11.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (11.27%) Boomi
8 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (11.27%) Mimecast
8 8 (11.27%) SaaS
9 7 (9.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.63%) AWS
11 4 (5.63%) Azure App Service
11 4 (5.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) BGP
2 4 (5.63%) DNS
2 4 (5.63%) LAN
2 4 (5.63%) MPLS
2 4 (5.63%) VPN
2 4 (5.63%) WAN
2 4 (5.63%) Wireless
3 3 (4.23%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (4.23%) Telnet
4 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.41%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) JIRA
2 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (85.92%) Finance
2 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Senior
2 14 (19.72%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Applications Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Security Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (4.23%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Platform Specialist
7 1 (1.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.41%) Lead
7 1 (1.41%) Lead Network Engineer
7 1 (1.41%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) REST
1 8 (11.27%) SAML
1 8 (11.27%) SOAP
1 8 (11.27%) Web Services
2 6 (8.45%) GraphQL
2 6 (8.45%) OAuth
2 6 (8.45%) OpenAPI
2 6 (8.45%) Swagger
3 3 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (4.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (54.93%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.68%) Security Posture
3 5 (7.04%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.23%) Equities
5 3 (4.23%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Windows
2 6 (8.45%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.63%) VMS
4 1 (1.41%) Linux
4 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (76.06%) Asset Management
1 54 (76.06%) Coaching
2 47 (66.20%) Agile
3 45 (63.38%) Roadmaps
4 41 (57.75%) DevOps
5 32 (45.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (45.07%) ITIL
6 30 (42.25%) AI
7 29 (40.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (36.62%) Analytics
8 26 (36.62%) FinOps
8 26 (36.62%) Machine Learning
8 26 (36.62%) Technology Roadmap
9 22 (30.99%) CI/CD
10 18 (25.35%) Information Security
11 17 (23.94%) Mentoring
12 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (14.08%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (14.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 49 (69.01%) Python
2 25 (35.21%) Bash
3 20 (28.17%) SQL
4 8 (11.27%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.45%) C#
6 4 (5.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) CISSP
1 6 (8.45%) CREST Certified
1 6 (8.45%) SANS
2 1 (1.41%) CEH
2 1 (1.41%) GIAC
2 1 (1.41%) GREM
2 1 (1.41%) OSCP
2 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.31%) Accessibility
2 8 (11.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (25.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (14.08%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.63%) Docker
5 1 (1.41%) RACF
Systems Management
1 41 (57.75%) Terraform
2 18 (25.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (11.27%) SCCM
3 8 (11.27%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (7.04%) Ansible
4 5 (7.04%) Grafana
5 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.41%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (1.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 33 (46.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.31%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.27%) MuleSoft
3 8 (11.27%) Workday
4 6 (8.45%) Splunk
5 4 (5.63%) F5
5 4 (5.63%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.63%) SolarWinds
6 3 (4.23%) Charles River
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.41%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.41%) IBM